Method for forming tie-joints.



P. AnDUBUS. METHOD FOR FORMING TIE JOINTS. APPLICATION FILED MW. 2. 19:4.

1 1%1 @4%@ Patented May 25, 1915.

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ARMANB D'UBUS, Q1? NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

THETEOE) FOR FORMING 'IIE-JGIN'ES.

Application filed November 7, 1914,.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER ARMAND Donne, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certam new and useful Improvements in Methods Tie-Joints; and l do hereby declare the tollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to methods for forming joints in bale ties and the like, and aims to provide an improved method designed to dispense with the method of riveting, now generally employed, which is tedious, inconvenient and expensive.

Another object of the present invention resides in providing an improved method for joining the ends of bale ties, wherein the joint is edected by tongues punched from the overlapping ends of the ties, without the use of other tastenings of any find.

It is a filrther object of the present invention to provide an improved method of j oining the ends of bale ties and the like which will produce a strong and efiective joint, calculated to withstand the pressure of the bale. I

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the steps and processes hereinafter described and specifically ointed out in the appended claims.

Re erence is bad to the accompanying similar parts are indiout the several views.

Figure l is a fragmentary perspective view of the ends or" a bale or other tie, or band, illustrating the first step of the method as employed in the present invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the second step in the improved method; Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of thejoint as completed; Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of a slightly modified form illustrating a difierent shape of looking tongue ;-and Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of a still further modified form of tongue.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 and 2 designate the free ends of a bale, or other tie, or band, to be joined; and, in accordance with the present method, the in the overlapping relation shown in Fig. 1, whereby to provide Specification of Letters Patent.

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seminasrassa double thicknesses from which the locking tongues may be punched or otherwise produced. After the ends 1 and 2 have been so positioned the same are punched or otherwise operated upon, preferably at a rality of points, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, to provide pairs of superposed tongues 3 and 4. The punching operation is advantageously efiected diagonally of the ends 1 and 2, as illustrated in the cross-section in Fig. 2, with the result that the tongues produced from the upper overlapping end 1 will be relatively longer than the tongues of the lower end 2. In this manner the upper tongues, which are bent about mote center and fold over the lower tongues, and which would ordinarily terminate short of the ends of said lower tongues, are brought to position substantially flush with the same when the tongues are bent over as in Fig. 4. Upon completion of the punching operation the tongues are bent over in superposed pairs against the adjacent face of the tie, as will be understood.

As illustrated in Figs. 2, 3 and d, the tongues are figuration, whereby to reduce the amount of material. punched out and correspondingly reduce the area of the weakened portions in the tie; and at the same time provide a relatively elongatedbase line about which the tongues are bent and which atfords the strength for the joint. It will further be seen that the triangular tongues are, in accordance with the preferred form, punched out in reverse order and bent over in opposite directions. stood, however, that the invention is not limited to the triangular tongues, as the same may be employed to produce the substantially semi-circular tongues 5 and 6, illustrated in Fig. 5, or the rectangular tongues and 8, shown in Fig. 6.

l have illustrated and described preferred and satisfactory constructions, but obvious changes could be made in the herein described methods without departing from the spirit of my invention.

ll claim 1. The herein described method of forming joints in bale ties, which consists in positioning the free ends of the tie in overlapping relation, punching tongues at a plurality of points from the overlapping thicknesses, and bending said tongues in superposed pairs,

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transversely as of the tie, and.

the more re- I preferably of triangular con lit will be undera in substantial alinement with the direction of the tie, and bending said tongues about 7 of the pulling strain on the tie, and in rethe bases of said triangles in reverse direcverse directions, down against the face of tions down agiainst the face of the tie, subthe tie, substantially as described. stantially as escribed.

2. The herein described method of form- In testimony whereof, I afiix' my signaing joints in bal; tieEs, lwhich consists in poture, in presence of two witnesses.

sitloning t e en s o t e tie in over apping relation, punching triangular tongues from 7 PETER ARMAND DUBUS' the overlapping thicknesses at a plurality of Witnesses:

points, the bases of said triangles being sub- J. F. DUBUs,

stantially parallel to the longitudinal axis F. D. CHARBONNET, Jr. 

